CoopsGal
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Awww, you're welcome girls!
I can't get enough of these photos myself...he's just so....*sigh* perfect
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You're welcome, Miss G!
I got it from "The Films of Gary Cooper"; it really is very helpful in times like these
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lol, I love the tub scene; my mom was like, "what IS this?!"
It's Gary in a kilt, mother...isn't he purdy.
She was like..."wow, yeah, he really is!"
But I thought this movie was hilarious; with kilt and all.
I can't wait to get the rest of the DVDs that are due out soon; thanks so much for the information, Dan!
"Although Cooper thought this filmization of Barrie's play to be a "woman's picture," (could it quite possibly have been because of that kilt?) he gave one of his best performances as the ne'er-do-well kiltie. Beryl Mercer, who originated the role in the 1920 Broadway version, recreated her role with the right touches of humor and pathos. Richard Wallace, fresh from his success with The Shopworn Angel, was assigned on Seven Days Leave by John Cromwell, who later directed Cooper in The Texan.
Mordaunt Hall in The New York Times noted, 'Miss Mercer's performance is faultless. And there is no failing to find with Mr. Cooper's impersonation, for, as in his other films, he lends a lifelike quality to the role.' Richard Watts, Jr., in the New York Herald Tribune, wrote, 'The portrayal of Gary Cooper is a bit puzzling. He constantly underplays his roles, with the result that you frequently feel that he is injuring the production, and yet he is so attractive a player and, in his later emotional scenes, so enormously real and honest, that you realize in the end how helpful he has been.'
Martin Dickstein in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle told his readers, "Gary Cooper's characterization of the soldier is a faultless exhibition, which, coming so soon after his magnificent performance in The Virginian, must establish this player as one of the most satisfying actors on the audible screen.'
Seven Days Leave was one of the earliest of Paramount's 'all-talking' films, and during production was called Medals. It was completed in the early months of 1929 but was not, however, released to the public until January of 1930."
---Homer Dickens
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When will Gary's MGM set be released?
I know this sounds absolutely rediculous and silly, but I was just looking through some photos and noticed the photo of Gary and Tallulah's outfits in "Make me a Star" looked a little similar to "Devil and the Deep"; well, I flipped a page further and noticed, "HA! That little cameo was seriously in between takes for Devil and the Deep. Same clothes, same year, same stars."
Again, I know it may not seem uncommon, but I found it amusing
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"He was a student of human nature. Natural and unassuming, he could spot a phony across a country mile. It was said of Gary Cooper that ten minutes after meeting the man, you felt he'd been your friend for years. And once he was your friend, he was your friend for life."
-- John Mulholland
He was tall, lean, handsome, soft-spoken, courteous, the American male. No other actor in the history of film so personified the ideal of the American male as Gary Cooper. For 35 years and 92 films, Gary Cooper was America's Everyman.
-- John Mulholland
"Gary Cooper was the symbol of trust, confidence and protection. He is dead now. What a miracle that he existed."
-- Upon his death in 1961, the German newspaper Die Welt said it best.
"Perhaps with him there is ended a certain America: that of the frontier and of innocence which had or was believed to have an exact sense of the dividing line between good and evil."
-- Rome newspaper Corriere Della Sera
"I'm not good enough for him, I know that. But I tried to make him happy. I did make him happy. I would have done anything in the world for him. His mother--I hope she never cries the tears that I have cried. I hope she never knows the suffering I have known. I don't hate her, that much. She said I wasn't good enough for Gary. She told him that when I was in New York, I was seeing other men. She told him that I wasn't faithful to him. He believed what she told him."
-- Actress Lupe Velez
"He was a poet of the real. He knew all about cows, bulls, cars, and ocean tides. He had the enthusiasm of a boy. He could always tell you his first vivid impression of a thing. He had an old-fashioned politeness, but he said nothing casually."
-- Poet Clifford Odetts
"I liked Gary very much, but you know...He was a doll, he really was, a very nice guy...Gary was very nice, but the women were so crazy about him. More than any other man I knew. I think what attracted people was he had a great shyness, he kept pulling back, and it intrigued people. He really was a very quiet, quiet guy."
-- Evelyn Brent
Whomever he played -- soldier, cowboy, adventurer, lounge lizard, lover -- Gary Cooper became that character. The artistry was seamless, so natural that it was impossible to tell where the man left off and the actor began. As Charles Laughton put it: "We act, he is." John Barrymore put it another way: "This fellow is the world's greatest actor. He does without effort what the rest of us spend our lives trying to learn - namely to be natural."
-- John Mulholland
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"If there'd been no Coop, Hemingway would've had to invent him."
Alistair Cooke
On paper, the friendship between these two celebrated American icons would seem to have been impossible. But Coop and ?Papa? became the best of friends, right up to their deaths seven weeks apart in 1961.
Today, 40 years after their deaths, their intriguing and at times contentious friendship ? which roamed from Idaho and New York to Cuba and Paris -- resonates on fascinating and diverse levels. And, as the extraordinary popularity of "Saving Private Ryan" proved, Americans are looking back to another time to understand what real heroism is, to come to grips with what courage means.
Ernest Hemingway and Gary Cooper dealt with this very subject, as no one had before, as no one has since. Hemingway?s fiction and Cooper?s persona was not about masculinity as a one-note, smash-mouth force of nature; rather, it was about the self-respect that comes from comporting oneself with courage in the face of impossible circumstances.
But COOPER AND HEMINGWAY: THE TRUE GEN is far more than just a study of these two extraordinary men. It is also a study of America in this century. For their internationally renowned careers were played out over the same five turbulent decades. For 35 years, through the hedonistic 20s ... the grim Depression 30s ... the war-ravaged 40s ... and the deceptively slumbering 50s, their public and private lives connected, parted, reconnected, intertwined, over-lapped, and collided ...
... Smack into the erupting 60s ? a decade which challenged many of the very ideals and precepts which both men so prominently represented. Their torch was passed to a generation with new ideas about masculinity and heroism.
And yet, with the popularity of "Saving Private Ryan" on film and Stephen Ambrose?s Citizen Soldiers and Tom Brokaw?s Greatest Generation on the page -- and all that their popularity says about a new look at heroism and masculinity -- perhaps Cooper and Hemingway hadn?t so much passed the torch, as merely lent it.
http://www.cooperandhemingway.com
Release date for Documentary: September 15, 2007. (Years in the making)
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lol, I know! I love his facial expression in the last one...
What does "The True Gen" mean?
"The true gen" is believed to have been first used by members of the Royal Air Force during World War II. Before going on operations, air crews were given general information-abbreviated to "gen"-about the weather and expected enemy opposition. Others say that gen is merely short for genuine. Whatever the case, "the true gen" is used to distinguish accurate information from rumor and speculation. Ernest Hemingway picked up the expression and used it frequently...
More than anyone, Gary Cooper exemplified "the true gen
http://www.cooperandhemingway.com/index.htm
"Watch out Gable, we're re-discovering Gary!"
http://themave.com/Cooper/ccorner/newrave1.htm
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I went on campusi and found a hardcover copy....
Seriously! ....I want the hardcover copy! But I won't pay $13 for a book I already have. I may be obsessive, but I'm not THAT ba--*orders a copy of the book, and 3 more to place on her shelf*
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Eeeeeeeeee hehehehehe! The last one! *Dies*
Do you have the photos from pages: 46, 48, 52, 53 *especially the first one at the top left*, 84, 176?
I'm so excited that you got it! Now the three of us can obsess and gawk over the gorgeous photos.
Thanks so much for posting these ones, Angie! I love them
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Mrs Cooper,
I see that your Gary Cooper forum is a small part of a larger forum dedicated to discussing Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. I use to be a very big fan of them and Abott and Costello when I was a kid and think I will start looking to see what all movies are released on dvd. I have no idea on how many movies each comedy team made but I know they both made a bunch. I was going to buy the Abbott and Costello box sets as they are so cheap but all those complaints about the DVD's not working right steered me away. Perhaps I will buy them anyway as I never have the problems with dvd's not playing right that some people have. I would say that Abbott and Costello are my favorite but Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis are probably my second favorite. I am very big on comedy with perhaps my favorites all coming from the 60's sitcoms like Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies, Hogan's Heroes, Gomer Pyle, Andy Griffith ect. with only about two comedy shows that I can stand in modern times being News Radio and Seinfeld as I am very much into wacky/screwball/slapstick comedies. Oh I also left off two other classic comedy teams in Laurel and Hardy and The Three Stooges, which I was also crazy about growing up.
Lots of great stuff still to collect that is not Cooper releated.
Awww, I'm glad you like it, Dan! It'll seriously be a huge break from the pallies I have on there now. Not that I don't love them to pieces, but none of them like Gary. And it's SO difficult to talk about him, because they just shut me up.
My major collections are Gary Cooper/Dean Martin/The Colgate Comedy Hour/ and Jerry Lewis.
Here are the lyrics I found to a song Rush wrote in '77 about Mr. Deeds. It's pretty cool.
Cinderella Man
A modest man from Mandrake
Travelled rich to the city
He had a need to discover
A use for his newly found wealth
Because he was human
Because he had goodness
Because he was moral
They called him insane
Delusions of grandeur
Visions of splendor
A manic depressive
He walks in the rain
Eyes wide open
Heart undefended
Innocence untarnished...
Cinderella Man
Doing what you can
They can't understand
What it means
Cinderella Man
Hang on to your plans
Try as they might
They cannot steal your dreams
In the betrayal of his love he awakened
To face a world of cold reality
And a look in the eyes of the hungry
Awakened him to what he could do
He held up his riches
To challenge the hungry
Purposeful motion
For one so insane
They tried to fight him
Just couldn't beat him
This manic depressive
Who walks in the rain
Angie, where do you find all these songs?! They're amazing! Is this one on the CD as well?
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Another case in point: I really have never liked the tales of Alice in Wonderland, but was just enchanted by Gary's "Awkward Knight".
I know! I watched the entire movie through last night and LOL! It's such an incredibly strange movie, but Gary was just so adorable as the Awkward Knight I just had to upload it! I watch it all the time. My mom walks into the room and she goes, "Ooh, you're watching THAT again" And I'll be like, "Yup". She'll pause for a moment and then watch it with me. Everytime!
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Woohoo! I'm getting this one from the library, though isn't it, like, $20 on Amazon?
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Oh, I have "The Films of Gary Cooper"
I've had it for a few months and I just LOVE it!
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"yes, I'm trying to center my picture so the text doesn't wrap around it and stretch the thread out. It looks like someone managed to "edit" my post to fix that problem but I didn't know how to do it myself. I do have Lilac Time----courtesy of Coopsgirl!! Unfortunately, I'm the only prehistoric monster here without ability to burn dvds, nor do I yet have a dvd recorder of any kind. That will all be rectified as soon as I can, I promise!"
Awww, that's all right, I guess I can wait, lol.
Angie, Dan tells me you have both "Man from Wyomning" and "Devil and the Deep"
I'm not sure if you've already gotten everything you needed, but if you'd like to trade for these as well, I'd be glad to!
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Anyone have "Man from Wyoming" or "Devil and the Deep"?
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Wow! Lucky you, PK! I wish I were nearly complete with my collection, though sadly I am not. Hopefully, I'll be able to find more videos on Amazon or Ebay.
I did, however, find "The Eagle" which I had mentioned before. I know that isn't on your list, I just thought it was neat, because I think (I'm not sure) that Gary is in a mask with Valentino, ooooo! Gary in 1925, wearing a mask (I'm not so excited about the mask as I am that it's just cool to see him in 1925!) Don't hide that beautiful face!
Oh well, I wish you the best of luck with your search!
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What exactly are you trying to do? Center it? You guys are doing great! I love the photos, keep 'em comin'
P.S. Miss G, do you have "Lilac Time"? I'll be willing to trade with ya'
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